benighted

English

/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/, /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/

adj
Definitions
  • (obsolete) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: catch caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
  • (obsolete) Plunged into darkness.
  • (figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
  • (figuratively) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

Etymology

Suffix from English benight.

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